Wheat Happens Hefeweizen | Extract Recipe Kit | 5 Gallons
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Wheat Happens Hefeweizen | Extract Recipe Kit | 5 Gallons
Wheat Happens Hefeweizen is a bright, hazy Bavarian-style wheat beer recipe kit with a playful name and a classic beer target: soft wheat character, pale malt, pillowy foam, gentle noble-hop bitterness, and expressive banana-and-clove yeast character.
Companion version: This is the extract version of Wheat Happens Hefeweizen. If you want full mash control and a traditional all-grain wheat beer brew day, see the all-grain version of Wheat Happens Hefeweizen.
Beer Profile
- Style: German Hefeweizen / Bavarian Wheat Ale
- Batch Size: 5 gallons
- Estimated OG: ~1.048–1.052
- Estimated FG: ~1.010–1.014
- Estimated ABV: ~4.8–5.4%
- Bitterness: ~10–14 IBU
- Fermentation: Expressive wheat yeast
Grain Milling
We automatically mill the grains included with SoCal Brewing Supply beer recipe kits so they are ready for brew day. If you want the grains left unmilled, please add that request in the shopping cart notes before checkout. We’ll do our best to support unmilled requests when packing your order.
Fermentation Requirements
Use a clean, sanitized fermenter with enough headspace for a vigorous wheat-beer krausen. Pitch Mangrove Jack’s M20 into well-aerated wort around 64–68°F. Hold fermentation around 64–70°F for balanced clove and banana, or let it edge slightly warmer if you want more fruit. Confirm final gravity is stable before packaging.
Detailed Kit Contents
- Briess Bavarian Wheat DME: 2 Packs, 3 lb each
- Hallertau Mittelfrüh Hops: 1 Ounce supplied; use about 0.75 Ounce in the boil
- Mangrove Jack’s M20 Bavarian Wheat Yeast: 1 Packet
Extract Recipe Note
This extract version keeps the brew day simple with two 3 lb packs of Bavarian Wheat DME, gentle noble hopping, and dry Bavarian wheat yeast. The kit ships a full 1 oz Hallertau Mittelfrüh pack; weigh about 0.75 oz for the boil and reserve the small remainder.
Flavor and Brewing Character
Expect a hazy golden pour, soft bready wheat, light grainy sweetness, restrained bitterness, and the classic hefeweizen yeast profile. This is a fresh-drinking beer; package carefully, avoid oxygen pickup, and serve it young.
Helpful Bottling & Kegging Add-Ons
Bottling this batch? Add powdered dextrose priming sugar and use our Priming Sugar Calculator for the actual packaged volume and beer temperature.
Kegging instead? Use our Beer Carbonation Chart & Keg Serving Pressure Calculator to choose the right pressure for your serving temperature and carbonation target.